Since I'm working from homw 3/4 of the time now, I needed to straighten out my home 'office' at least a little ... I needed to move the party in there and one of the things killing that was a longish table with two large nice but old-school monitors hooked up to the XP box under the table.
I needed to scrunch them over so I could make room for my laptop and the more I thought about it, the more I wanted those two monitors to be hooked up to my development machine: the laptop.
Enter MaxiVista.
Using MaxiVista, I have extended my desktop onto the two monitors that are still connected to the XP box.
But wait, there's more...
Also using MaxiVista, I can 'remote control' the XP box from my laptop... I mean 'really' remote control... it has every appearance of me using the mouse or keyboard attached. And as for the usability of the extra desktop space, I'm typing this on one of the secondary monitors and it's working as if I were typing it on the laptop.
The upshot of it all is that I pulled the USB cable out for the keyboard connection to the XP box, and wrapped up up and into the laptop. Running low on USB ports then, I am using a BlueTooth mouse on the laptop.
The mouse connected to the XP box is still sitting here, pushed back in a non-usable spot just in case I need to move it like I did when I was setting this all up.
So far I haven't had been able to unpin and use multiple monitors with VS2010, but I have had 3 copies of it up all day while comparing code.
MaxiVista and 3-monitors FTW!